Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . MILITARY EXERCISES: PRIME AND LOAD. (Thomas Rowlandson, Loval Vohintccrs uf London, 17Jb.) 720 EXGLAXD\S STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE. 11802 TheMilitia. Distribu-tion of theArmy. Annual Register of 1810, when at Plymouth a substitute waspaid £60 for his services; when another was hired on conditionof receiving four shillings a day during the continuance of thewar, and a third sold himself by Aveight for 7s. od. pe
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . MILITARY EXERCISES: PRIME AND LOAD. (Thomas Rowlandson, Loval Vohintccrs uf London, 17Jb.) 720 EXGLAXD\S STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE. 11802 TheMilitia. Distribu-tion of theArmy. Annual Register of 1810, when at Plymouth a substitute waspaid £60 for his services; when another was hired on conditionof receiving four shillings a day during the continuance of thewar, and a third sold himself by Aveight for 7s. od. per pound!After 1811 the militia was recruited by free men obtained b} beat of drum, and no longer by conscripts forced to serveagainst their will. During the whole of the great war the militia renderedinvaluable service to the country. Not only did the Con-stitutional Force supply nearly half the recruits for the army,but it also relieved large numbers of line regiments fromgarrison duty in the United Kingdom, and thus set them freefor foreign service. After an embodiment of several years themilitia battalions were in no way inferior to those of the line ;and in 1814 a large brigad
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